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Your new company

Join a company that offers multidisciplinary services: consult, design, build, manage and maintain on behalf of a local authority and the communities and people it represents. They provide value for money, quality of output, and customer excellence to support regeneration and economic growth for the East Midlands.

Your new role

Core values - accountability, reliability, and collaboration - ensure that we work together effectively as both a team and through the company, to create cost-effective, innovative approaches to even the most complex challenges. In this role, you will:

• Contribute to, develop, manage and deliver the site delivery plans for your allocated projects to ensure that they are delivered within the agreed programme and achieve the desired outcomes.
• Ensure that delivery plans / programmes are provided for allocated sites and that they are actively monitored and managed.
• Oversee day-to-day management of operations on-site, ensuring that the project is brought to a successful completion and meets the programme, budget, brief and quality constraints.
• Effectively communicate with the Design Team to ensure the timely release of design information.
• Ensure that sites are proactively managed in a safe manner in accordance with the Health and Safety procedures, and agree the requirements for managing multiple sites operating in parallel to each other.
• Understand and take an active interest in the commercial outcomes of the project by closely working with the QS to ensure that costs and the supply chain are adequately controlled.
• Ensure that all aspects of the project are carried out in accordance with statutory requirements.
• Perform safety inspections and ensure construction and site safety.
• Plan and efficiently organise the site set up and logistics.
• Where appropriate, follow the business templates for using NEC contractual forms and trackers with the Project team so that the information flow and any changes are managed efficiently.
  
  

What you'll need to succeed

• Extensive relevant project construction experience.
• Proven experience of managing a project delivery function on site within a construction contracting business.
• A broad understanding of the design process and the challenges of getting a project to site.
• CIOB Level 4 Certificate in Construction Site Management or equivalent.
• Broad demonstrable knowledge of NEC forms in the context of change control on site and the provision of project clarifications with the design team and subcontractors.
• Strong construction, commercial, and supply-chain management skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills to effectively present technical information, present arguments to influence and persuade audiences with different backgrounds and levels of understanding.
  
  

What you'll get in return

• A competitive salary depending on experience

• Local Government Pension Scheme includes generous employer contributions and life assurance of 3x salary.

• Private Medical Insurance.

• 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays and additional birthday leave.

• Exposure to a wide range of projects and development opportunities in the Nottinghamshire area.

• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay.

• Mileage is paid.
  
  

What you need to do now

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